VOLUME 2

THE SACRED SCRIPTURES AND THE LUTHERAN CONFESSIONS

Volume 2, of the Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn

THE SACRED SCRIPTURES AND THE LUTHERAN CONFESSIONS
Volume 2, of the Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn

was published in mid-June 2007

Foreword by Robert Kolb
Edited and introduced by Philip J. Secker
Mansfield CT: CEC Press, June 2007.
xlviii + 313 pages = 361 pages. 1000 copies printed.
$21.95

CEC Press is the publishing arm of the Arthur Carl Piepkorn Center for Evangelical Catholicity.

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All foreign language in the text and important quotations in the notes have been translated.
Contains six documents that have never before been published.
Headnotes give the historical background of each document.
There are many editorial footnotes and cross references.
A smaller font and more pages means there is more text in volume 2 than in volume 1.
Wider inner margins and 50 lb. paper means the book is easy to read and copy quotes from.
Contains the first complete printing of “I Believe,” Piepkorn’s personal confession of faith (1973).

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2:

Preface
Foreword by Robert Kolb
Introduction by the editor, who was the last student to receive a doctorate under Piepkorn. Contains a synthesis of Piepkorn’s beliefs about the Sacred Scriptures and the Lutheran Confessions and their relationship, as well as an introductory comment on each document in the book.

Part 1 The Sacred Scriptures
Discussion of the Term “Canonical Scripture” (Why Lutherans have never closed their canon)
Lutheran Use of the Deuterocanonical books
The Inspiration of Scripture: The Posiiton of the Church and the Symbols
Review of Robert Preus’ doctoral dissertation,The Inspiration of Scripture: A Study of the Theology of the Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Dogmaticians, Mankato: The Lutheran Synod Book Company, 1955.
What does “Inerrancy” Mean? plus a 1000 word addendum containing a 1968 letter on inerrancy
Old Testament exegesis and the Lutheran Symbols
Correspondence: A letter in respond to a request for information on “Scripture Authority”

Part 2 The Lutheran Confessions
The Council of Chalcedon, 451-1951 (Its modern meaning)
What the Reformation Was Not
The Significance of the Lutheran Symbols for Today
No New Symbols
Suggested Principles for the Hermeneutics of the Lutheran Symbols
Melancthon, the Confessor (Philip Melancthon wrote much more of the Symbols than Luther)
Walther and the Symbols (Walther was the founder of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod)
The Augsburg Confession for Our Time
Why Still Be Lutheran?
Reflections on the Teaching of Courses in Symbolics
Subscription to the Lutheran Symbols (The oath that pastors and teachers take)
The Lutheran Symbolical Books and Luther
Let’t Change the Creed!
Erasmus and the Paradox of Subjective Salvation
The Crisis in Systematic Theology
Correspondence: “The Article by which the Church Stands or Falls”
Do the Lutheran Symbols Speak Where the Sacred Scriptures are Silent?
Correspondence: The Gospel and “All Its Articles”
I Believe (Piepkorn’s personal confession of faith from the year he died)

About Arthur Carl Piepkorn (an 11 page biography by the editor)

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